- Matthias Spohr joins Eurowings as Chief Operating Officer on 1 October 2026.
- He was Managing Director of Lufthansa Aviation Training.
- He succeeds Edi Wolfensberger.
- Spohr served as Head of Flight Operations at Eurowings Germany from 2015 to 2021.
- Edi Wolfensberger becomes CEO of Edelweiss.
Matthias Spohr currently Managing Director of Lufthansa Aviation Training GmbH will join the Executive Board of Eurowings as Chief Operating Officer on 1 October 2026. He will be responsible for Crew Operations Flight Operations Ground and Customer Operations Safety Security and Compliance Monitoring Lean Management Digitalisation and Processes as well as Technical Fleet Management and Eurowings Technik.
Spohr will succeed Edi Wolfensberger as a member of the three-person Executive Board headed by CEO Max Kownatzki. Wolfensberger will become the new CEO of Edelweiss Switzerland’s leading leisure airline which is also part of the Lufthansa Group. Spohr served as Head of Flight Operations at Eurowings Germany and as Nominated Person Flight Operations from 2015 to 2021.
Spohr began his career in aviation in 1990 at Lufthansa’s flight school in Bremen. He studied economics at Ruhr University Bochum graduating with a degree in economics. From 1995 he flew Airbus A320 and A340 aircraft for Lufthansa. In 2005 he trained as an A320 captain with Condor Berlin. He joined Germanwings in 2013 as Head of the A320 fleet. At Lufthansa Aviation Training he was responsible from 2021 for the restructuring and relaunch of the European Flight Academy.
